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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>, Anders Gustafsson <andersg@0x63.nu>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5-bk AT_GID clash
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:37:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15826.54336.577805.474920@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021113071630.190EC2C077@lists.samba.org>

Rusty Russell writes:

> But IMHO the nameclash needs to be fixed *anyway*, not hacked around,
> or someone else will run over it one day.  AFAICT, changing
> fs/binfmt_elf.c and elf.h to AT_RGID is the simplest.  Both should be
> mildly chastised for using a prefix like AT_ publically.

The name (AT_GID) is mandated by the ABI specification IIRC.

Paul.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-13 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-12  1:18 Anders Gustafsson
2002-11-12 17:16 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-12 17:33   ` Steve Lord
2002-11-12 18:07     ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-13  7:34       ` Nathan Scott
2002-11-13 11:17       ` linux/elf.h vs linux/module.h [was: 2.5-bk AT_GID clash] Anders Gustafsson
2002-11-14  1:53         ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-13 22:37       ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2002-11-12 18:07   ` 2.5-bk AT_GID clash Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-12 22:50   ` Anders Gustafsson
2002-11-14  6:44     ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 13:26       ` Anders Gustafsson

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